What’s everyone else doing to ease the glare from torch light bouncing off their suppressor when spot lighting?
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What’s everyone else doing to ease the glare from torch light bouncing off their suppressor when spot lighting?
Mount torch under stock with Accutech picatinny rail. No drilling required.
Play with the positioning of the torch - shifting it forward or back can often change the angle enough to keep your scope clear.
From memory at one stage I used one of the screw-on sunshade tubes for my scope, and that sorted it. (Possibly due to shading the back of the can, as much as anything..)
Could also use a cardboard tube or similar attached to the front of your torch to stop the spill hitting your can but leave the spot untouched.
cover on silencer may be worth a try as well
@SpeightsDrinker - what magnification?
A sunshade should work - the "toilet roll" type that goes on the scope objective. Downside is that with lower magnifications, you could obscure some of your sight picture edge with a sunshade, depending on the length and field of view.
Edit: turning the torch off also gets rid of the reflection. :ORLY: replace it with a thermal! :thumbsup:
Remember when sunshades were all the rage :D
If there is one thing worse for catching on twigs and branches than a scoped rifle, it's a scoped rifle with a sunshade! They went well with Rev Rog silencers though... :D
I had awful problems with scope glare on a stainless rifle. It nearly cost me my first pig, there's a little story there.! Anyway, I tried everything, changing torch position, tube shades, honeycomb shades and one or two other weird and wonderful solutions that didn't work which is why I settled on the under stock mount. I noticed scope glare changed with environmental conditions. Practising in the garage did not translate to a misty morning in a paddock. Your experience may vary.
Looking into underbarrel mounting options, I think that’s the way to go.
I have a black cohesive bandage (a.k.a vet wrap) on my suppressor mainly to stop the metallic 'ting' when it brushes trees, rocks, etc.
Also works to stop glare and heat mirage.
Suppression and Compression:DQuote:
Originally Posted by Basenjiboy
I tried the horse bandage but had no joy on my 19" 270, although only get the glare when I'm x6 and up on the scope.
My bushpig 308 gives me no trouble on x9. The only difference between the 2 is the objective and the barrel length. Had flirted with a higher mounted torch on the 270 but never got round to trying it.
Maxtoch has rings to mount your torch which avoids that issue.
Length of rubber inner tube over the can...
There is a cover from a company called Black hole solution , which suck up light out of the torch , but they are still at the R&D stage for the moment, as it sucks everything else near it.
If you put a piece of tape over the bottom third or so of the torch it can help a great deal as well.
Moreso the bottom third of the scope objective. Don't need more light going through the scope when you have a torch on.Quote:
Originally Posted by TLB
Joining this conversation late but thinking about the issue I would say that turning the torch off would solve the problem. Ha ha ha ha fuck you’re a helpful bugger Rushy.
we do a bit of lighting - have gone right of many of the new LED- just to white - the glare onto wet grass can be very hard to make out animals - have gone to a more dull light - but try a filter if you have a chance very effective on shy rabbits green or red have not tried on deer but could work - with a thermal one does not need a mega power light - you know where the deer is and its just a matter of enough to get a sight picture - try a wrap around your suppressor enough to take the shine of it - most of our lighting we have one shooter on the rifle and one person on the light so not so important
That is the best way and most fun. Last time I went possum shooting, I was the spotter (thermal + torch) and probably enjoyed it more than being the trigger man. There was no pressure to perform!Quote:
Originally Posted by Barry the hunter
Yep, that worked for my bunny gun which is blued, but it didn't work on a stainless rifle.Quote:
Originally Posted by TeRei
Take torch to plumbers. Find right size downpipe just long enough to shade the suppressor. If too big cut a slot long ways and wrap tape around until slips on and off torch. Job done